{"mpsno":4569,"initial":"Dr.","firstName":"Shashi","lastName":"Tharoor","firstLastName":"Shashi Tharoor","fullName":"Dr. Shashi Tharoor","lastFirstName":"Tharoor, Dr. Shashi","constituency":"Thiruvananthapuram","photoUrl":"https://sansad.in/getFile/dms/fetch/4e8a0bec-d47c-4691-b1df-4a1cb4b82c40?source=dsp2","stateName":"Kerala","stateCode":"KL","partyFname":"Indian National Congress","partySname":"INC","email":"\n office@tharoor.in
shashi.tharoor@nic.in\n","presentFaddr":"97, Lodhi Estate New Delhi NCT of Delhi","presentLaddr":"110003","delhiPhone":"Tels. : (011) 23354158, 23354035, 23354383\n 011-24644035, 011-24644383","permanentFaddr":"Apt. Gj Condor Marigold, Bhakthy Vilasam RD.Vazhu Thiruvananthapuram Kerala","permanentLaddr":"695014","personalPhone":"\n Tel : (0471) 2324555, 09013180980
Fax : (0471) 2324666,9560905727\n","councilMinSts":" ","fatherName":"Shri Chandran Tharoor","motherName":"Smt Lily Tharoor","spouseName":" ","birthPlace":"London (England)","marriageDate":"22-Aug-2010","sons":"2","daughters":"0","booksPublished":"Non Fiction (i) Reasons of State: Political Development and India’s Foreign Policy under Indira Gandhi, 1966-1977 (1982); (ii) Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), a Biography of India’s First Prime Minister; a collection of literary essays; (iii) Shadows Across the Playing Field: 60 Years of India-Pakistan Cricket (1997); (iv) Bookless in Baghdad (2005), an essay collection; (v) The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone: Reflections on India; The Emerging 21st Century Power (2007); (vi) India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond (2009), with Shaharyar Khan; (vii) Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century (2012); (viii) India: The Future is Now (edited) (2013); (ix) India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our time (2015) (x) An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016); (xi) The Paradoxical Prime Minister (2018) (xii) Why I Am a Hindu (2018) (xiii) Inde (French); (xiv) Tharoorosaurus; (xv) Ambedkar, a life ; (xvi) The Battle of Belonging; (xvii) The Less You Preach The More You Learn: aphorisms for our age, Co authored with Joseph Zacharias \n\nFiction: (xviii) The Great Indian Novel (1989); (xix) The Five-Dollar Smile and other short stories (1990); (xx) Show Business (1992) which received a front page accolade in the ‘New York Times’ Book Review and has since been made into a motion picture, “Bollywood”; (xxi) Riot (2001); Illustrated books: (xxii) Kerala: God’s own Country (2002), with text by Shashi Tharoor and paintings by the renowned M.F. Husain; also translated in French, German, Italian, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish; (xxiii) India (2008), a photo book in collaboration with photographer Ferrante Ferranti","literary":"Author of 25 Books. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award, A Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1991 the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award and other literary and Journalistic awards; and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, 2004; Named Global Leader of Tomorrow at World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos, Switzerland, 1998; awarded (i) Robert B. Stewart Prize for the Best Student, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; (ii) An honorary D.Litt.,University of Puget Sound; and (iii) Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Bucharest, Romania; first Editor, Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, Fletcher.","social":"Columnist and Writer, Indian and International Publications; served as (i) Contributing Editor and Occasional columnist, Newsweek International; and (ii) Public Speaker on Indian and Global Issues; Patron, Chandran Tharoor Foundation","interest":"International Affairs, Literature, Cricket, Theatre, The United Nations, Human Rights.","hobbies":"Cricket, reading, writing, theatre, movies and media","sports":"Chairman, (i) City Cricketers, Thiruvananthapuram; (ii) India International Centre; and (iii) Kerala International Centre; and Captained, Ministry of External Affairs Cricket team, 2009-10","countriesVisited":"Widely Travelled","dateOfBirth":"09-Mar-1956","maritalStatus":"Widow/Widower","qualificationName":null,"education":"\n B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.A.L.D, Ph.D., D.Litt. (Honorary), Dr. Honoris Causa
Educated at St Stephen`s College, Delhi University, New Delhi and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, U.S.A.\n","facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/ShashiTharoor/","twitter":"@ShashiTharoor","instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/shashitharoor/?hl=en","pinterest":"","linkedIn":"","otherInfo":"Served The United Nations for 29 year career(1978-2007) Under-Secretary-General, Communications and Public Information, U.N., 2001-2007; Executive Assistant, Secretary General, U.N.,1997-2000; Special Asstt.,USA/UN for peacekeeping, 1989-1996; Deputy Chief, Secretariat, UNCHR, 1985-89; Head, Singapore Office, UNHCR, 1981-84; and Public Information Officer, UNHCR, 1978-81;served (i) Board of Overseers, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute; (ii) Advisory Boards of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American India Foundation, the World Policy Journal, the Virtue foundation and the human rights organization `Breakthrough`;appointed an International Adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 2008-11; Fellow,New York Institute of the Humanities and the Patron of the Dubai Modern School; Awards (i) The Pride of India Award, the Zakir Husain Memorial Foundation, Nagpur; and (ii) The Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, presented by Maharana of Udaipur; Member, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, 2010-12.","freedom":"N","mainProfessionName":"AUTHOR","otherProfessionName":"International Civil Servant","categoryCode":" ","loksabhaExpr":"15,16,17,18","createdAt":"2025-08-15 14:09:37.975701","updatedAt":"2025-08-15 14:09:37.975701","icNo":null}